Senior Field Application Engineer - Datacenter Solutions Lead

AMD; California (MO); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

AMD is seeking a senior technical leader to manage the FAE team supporting a strategic datacenter customer in the San Jose/SF Bay Area. The role combines technical authority with team leadership, overseeing all aspects of the customer engagement and coordinating with sales, marketing, and engineering to ensure successful deployments.

The ideal candidate has a strong track record in CPU/server architecture, server benchmarks, GPU computing, and datacenter technologies, with excellent

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field (CS or Electrical Engineering preferred).
• Experience leading a customer-facing engineering team is essential.
• Strong knowledge of x86 server platforms, CPUs, GPUs, and performance profiling.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Sales to drive portfolio expansion and move platforms from evaluation to deployment.
• Lead and develop the FAE team supporting the customer (Meta).
• Influence architecture and implementation of new datacenter systems using AMD technologies.
• Provide onsite and remote engineering support through design, testing, and debugging.
• Coordinate strategic technical initiatives and investigations.
• Lead performance optimization and competitive analysis efforts.
• Advocate for new features to meet customer needs and relay feedback to AMD teams.

Skills

Customer-facing team leadership

Interpersonal & communication

Hardware & system architecture

CPU/server architecture

Server benchmarks & GPU computing

Problem solving & multitasking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/EE

Tools

Linux OS

UEFI firmware

Server hardware diagnostics

Job description

AMD is seeking a senior technical leader to manage the FAE team supporting a strategic datacenter customer in the San Jose/SF Bay Area. The role combines technical authority with team leadership, overseeing all aspects of the customer engagement and coordinating with sales, marketing, and engineering to ensure successful deployments.

The ideal candidate has a strong track record in CPU/server architecture, server benchmarks, GPU computing, and datacenter technologies, with excellent